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> This decision reflects Micron’s commitment to its ongoing portfolio transformation and the resulting alignment of its business to secular, profitable growth v

> This decision reflects Micron’s commitment to its ongoing portfolio transformation and the resulting alignment of its business to secular, profitable growth vectors in memory and storage. By concentrating on core enterprise and commercial segments, Micron aims to improve long-term business performance and create value for strategic customers as well as stakeholders. What the fuck does "secular" even mean in this context? Is there religious DRAM? What a short-sighted, boneheaded move. I'm so tired of the MBA-ificiation of every single part of my life.

x0x0 10mo ago
secular is the opposite of cyclical in business. ie a long-term trend. And same. Though blowing significant fractions of a trillion dollars into (imo) investments that are never gonna return anything near to making that a good plan (ex a government bailout) will inevitably redirect huge portions of stuff we care about. The world's gdp is about 90T iirc; that is basically taking 1/90th of the stuff the world does in a year and putting it into ai.
thewebguyd 10mo ago
>Is there religious DRAM? RAM optimized for TempleOS and Holy-C
- jakebasile 10mo ago
  If only this were the case.
ruralfam 10mo ago
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- venturecruelty 10mo ago
  I consulted my paper dictionary, which doesn't use as much electricity as Belgium or thousands of gallons of water, and it reads: "of or relating to a long term of indefinite duration: <secular inflation>, <A secular increase in the quantity of money is required in a growing economy... – Milton Friedman>".
- q3k 10mo ago
  would you kindly not
- IAmGraydon 10mo ago
  Congrats on being the tone deaf baffoon of the day.
20after4 10mo ago
Yes, the MBAs and private equity firms are about 80% of the way through ruining everything that was ever good in the world. They've been accelerating exponentially. Probably won't be long now. I like to think it can't get much worse but I thought that several times before and I've been proven wrong each time. Optimism is getting much harder to hold on it.
- KapKap66 10mo ago
  They didn't mess up Valve yet :)
  - mschuster91 10mo ago
    Try buying GTA San Andreas on Steam - if you didn't buy it before some cutoff date a few years ago, all you can get is the shit AI textures "remaster". Steam is a powerful force, and I applaud them for staying private and not IPO'ing - but their founders won't be around forever (hell Gabe, please transfer Steam into some sort of public-good trust or whatever, or have provisions in your will making it impossible for whomever inherits the company to enshittify), and sadly even they can't beat down on the studios too hard lest they end up like Netflix.
    - bigstrat2003 10mo ago
      It's not exactly Valve's fault what Rockstar has decided to do with sales of their games.
School-Cotton 10mo ago
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/secular https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/secular

x0x0 10mo ago

secular is the opposite of cyclical in business. ie a long-term trend. And same. Though blowing significant fractions of a trillion dollars into (imo) investments that are never gonna return anything near to making that a good plan (ex a government bailout) will inevitably redirect huge portions of stuff we care about. The world's gdp is about 90T iirc; that is basically taking 1/90th of the stuff the world does in a year and putting it into ai.

thewebguyd 10mo ago

>Is there religious DRAM? RAM optimized for TempleOS and Holy-C

jakebasile 10mo ago
If only this were the case.

ruralfam 10mo ago

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venturecruelty 10mo ago
I consulted my paper dictionary, which doesn't use as much electricity as Belgium or thousands of gallons of water, and it reads: "of or relating to a long term of indefinite duration: <secular inflation>, <A secular increase in the quantity of money is required in a growing economy... – Milton Friedman>".
q3k 10mo ago
would you kindly not
IAmGraydon 10mo ago
Congrats on being the tone deaf baffoon of the day.

20after4 10mo ago

Yes, the MBAs and private equity firms are about 80% of the way through ruining everything that was ever good in the world. They've been accelerating exponentially. Probably won't be long now. I like to think it can't get much worse but I thought that several times before and I've been proven wrong each time. Optimism is getting much harder to hold on it.

KapKap66 10mo ago
They didn't mess up Valve yet :)
- mschuster91 10mo ago
  Try buying GTA San Andreas on Steam - if you didn't buy it before some cutoff date a few years ago, all you can get is the shit AI textures "remaster". Steam is a powerful force, and I applaud them for staying private and not IPO'ing - but their founders won't be around forever (hell Gabe, please transfer Steam into some sort of public-good trust or whatever, or have provisions in your will making it impossible for whomever inherits the company to enshittify), and sadly even they can't beat down on the studios too hard lest they end up like Netflix.
  - bigstrat2003 10mo ago
    It's not exactly Valve's fault what Rockstar has decided to do with sales of their games.

School-Cotton 10mo ago

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/secular https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/secular